{"id":30665,"date":"2022-01-20T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T00:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=30665"},"modified":"2022-01-20T19:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T00:46:35","slug":"prince-andrew-out-as-head-of-queens-york-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/prince-andrew-out-as-head-of-queens-york-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew out as head of Queen\u2019s York Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aurora\u2019s regiment, The Queen\u2019s York Rangers, is without a Colonel-in-Chief following a decision announced by Buckingham Palace last Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prince Andrew, Duke of York, was relieved of his honourary military appointments in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand amid an ongoing claim he sexually assaulted the then-teenage Virginia Giuffre, one of the highest profile accusers of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giuffre is suing the Duke of York in a U.S. civil court and the Queen\u2019s second son strenuously denies her claims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Duke of York was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Queen\u2019s York Rangers, a regiment based out of Toronto\u2019s Fort York Armoury and the Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe Armoury on Aurora\u2019s Industrial Parkway South, in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That came to an end on January 13 with a simple statement from Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith The Queen\u2019s approval and agreement, the Duke of York\u2019s military affiliations and Royal patronages have been returned to The Queen,\u201d said the Palace. \u201cThe Duke of York will continue not to undertake any public duties and is defending this case as a private citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Palace went on to state that Prince Andrew would no longer be using his title of \u201cHis Royal Highness\u201d and these patronages and military appointments would be redistributed to other members of the Royal Family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Duke of York last visited the Queen\u2019s York Rangers in 2014 at a series of meetings in Toronto and at an Oak Ridges banquet centre just south of Aurora where he also unveiled signage and commemorative plaques for Queen\u2019s Diamond Jubilee Park on John West Way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario Elizabeth Dowdeswell continues in her role as Colonel of the Regiment for the Queen\u2019s York Rangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aurora\u2019s regiment, The Queen\u2019s York Rangers, is without a Colonel-in-Chief following a decision announced by Buckingham Palace last Thursday. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, was relieved of his honourary military appointments in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand amid an ongoing claim he sexually assaulted the then-teenage Virginia Giuffre, one of the highest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-7YB","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 10:44:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}